Note 114 — Chapter IV · THE SONG OF THE MOTH
Beatrice M. Hinkle translation
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“Below the hills, a marshy plain
Infects what I so long have been retrieving:
This stagnant pool likewise to drain
Were now my latest and my best achieving.
To many millions following let me furnish soil.”
The analogy of this expression with the quotation above is striking.